All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

We have two kids, my wife and myself.

I don't know what other people are doing - I just know about me.

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

I never though much about race.

I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games.

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum.

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.

If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.

All musicians are potential band leaders.

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know.

Mathematicians are born, not made.

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal.

The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?

Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.

That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.